Tag Archive | "Higher Education Ministry"

IT has been almost six months since the Court of Appeal in a landmark ruling declared it unconstitutional to prohibit university students from supporting or opposing political parties under the Universities and University Colleges Act (UUCA). On 9 April 2012, Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Khaled Nordin finally tabled amendments to the UUCA, Private Higher […]

KUALA LUMPUR, 14 May 2009: The government will set up a company under the Finance Ministry to manage Universiti Kuala Lumpur (UniKL) which was previously placed under Majlis Amanah Rakyat. It would remain as a private higher education institution under the Higher Education Ministry’s supervision, said Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Khaled Nordin. UniKL’s study fees […]

PUTRAJAYA, 17 March 2009: The Higher Education Ministry has received 16 applications to pursue doctorate degree under a special scheme announced in the second stimulus package last week. Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin said no applications received for the master’s degree so far. There was no closing date for the programme but candidates would […]

KUALA LUMPUR, 8 Jan 2009: University students and their institutions can organise and participate in protests against the Israeli invasion of Palestine, Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin said today. He said the ministry had no objection to the students and universities staging such a protest as the amended Universities and University Colleges […]